Anger should never appear in awarding punishment.

Friendship embraces innumerable ends; turn where you will it is ever at your side; no barrier shuts it out; it is never untimely and never in the way.

How do our philosophers act? Do they not inscribe their signatures to the very essays they write on the propriety of despising glory.

It is the soul itself which sees and hears, and not those parts which are, as it were, but windows to the soul.

The foolishness of old age does not characterize all who are old, but only the foolish.

Whatever that be which thinks, understands, wills, and acts, it is something celestial and divine.

To some extent I liken slavery to death.